Gender mainstreaming and EU climate change policy

Gill Allwood

European Integration online Papers (EIoP), 2014, vol. 18

Abstract: This article uses feminist institutionalism to examine how gender mainstreaming has been sidelined in European Union (EU) climate change policy. It finds that, with a few exceptions largely emanating from the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, EU responses to climate change are gender-blind. This is despite the Treaty obligations to gender mainstream policy in all areas and despite the intersections between climate change and development policy, which is renowned for having taken gender equality and women's empowerment seriously and for instigating gender mainstreaming and specific actions as a means to achieve them. The persistent invisibility of gender can be attributed to various forms of institutional resistance.

Keywords: development policy; environmental policy; gender policy; neo-institutionalism; policy analysis; policy coordination; political science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-11-10
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